Changes from 0.60.4 to 0.60.5 (December 18, 2006)

Complain if more than one file is specified when checking files using
the aspell check command, rather than ignoring the other files.

Large number of bug fixes.

Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.60.4 (October 19, 2005)

Fixed a bug that caused Aspell to crash when checking certain Russian
words, this bug likely affected other languages as well.

Updated to Gettext 0.14.5 which is required for AMD64, also updated to
to Libtool 1.5.20.

Fixed an alignment bug which caused mmap to always fail when reading
in dictionaries.

Added note about how make clean will remove the HTML manuals.

Added manual page for prezip-bin and enhanced word-list-compress manual
page thanks to the work of Jose Da Silva.

Other minor updates and bug fixes.

Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3 (June 28, 2005)

Fixed bugs involving several of the C API functions.

Fixed bug where ‘ultra’ or ‘fast’ mode would not return any
suggestions when soundslike lookup was not used.

Made a minor, yet significant, optimization to the suggestion code.
This sped things up by an order of magnitude in some cases.

Avoid using the slow ngram scan except when the ‘sug-mode’ is
‘slow’ or ‘bad-speller’.

Fixed a bug in curses mode which caused word-wrap to not work
correctly in some cases.

Fixed a bug in pipe mode with a missing newline.

Fixed the spell compatibility script.

Several other minor bugs fixed.

Made note about the change in behavior of the ‘-l’ command line
switch.

Other manual update/fixes.

Updated to Libtool 1.5.18, Automake 1.9.6, and Makeinfo 4.8.

Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2 (December 18, 2004)

Added the munch-list command to the Aspell utility. The
munch program in the ‘myspell/’ directory will
disappear in Aspell 0.61. The munchlist script will also
likely disappear or be replaced when Aspell 0.61 is released since it
doesn’t work correctly anyway.

Several important bug fixes some of which rendered some non-English
languages unusable.

Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.1.1 (November 20, 2004)

Added an option to disable using the “wide” curses version in case it
causes compile problems.

Minor manual updates

Avoided including some unnecessary files in the distribution.

Changes from 0.60 to 0.60.1 (November 7, 2004)

Lots of compile fixes for various platforms.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Added Nroff filter thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff.

The default filter mode when in pipe mode is now nroff for compatibility with
Ispell.

Added Texinfo filter.

Added a section detailing the differences between Ispell and Aspell.

Updated the section on thread safety.

Other miscellaneous manual changes such as updating the To Do and Authors
section.

Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.60 (August 27, 2004)

Added support for Affix Compression. Affix compression stores the root
word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that the word can take,
and thus saves a lot of space. The codebase comes from MySpell found in
OpenOffice. It uses the same affix file that OpenOffice (and Mozilla)
use. Affix compression will even work with soundslike lookup to a
limited extent.

Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in UTF-8
or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses. This
includes support for Unicode normalization. Aspell can now support any
language with no more than 210 distinct characters, including different
capitalizations and accents, even if there is not an existing
8-bit encoding that supports the language.

Added support for loadable filters and customizable filter modes thanks
to Christoph Hintermüller.

Enhanced SGML filter to also support skipping sgml tags such as "script"
blocks thanks to Tom Snyder.

Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff

Reworked the compiled dictionary format. Compiled dictionaries now take
up less space (less than 80% for the English language) and
creating them is significantly faster (over 4 times for the
English language).

Reworked suggestion code. It is significantly faster when dealing with
short words (up to 10 times). Also added support for MySpell
Replacement Tables and n-gram lookup. In addition, added basic support
for compound words.

Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work of
Chris Martin.

Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for most
of the code.

All data, by default, is now included in
‘libdir/aspell-0.60’. Also added a built time option to
increment the major version number of the shared library. This should
allow both Aspell version 0.50 and 0.60 to coexist. The major version
number is not incremented by default as Aspell 0.60 is binary
compatible with Aspell 0.50. See Binary Compatibility.

The code to handle dictionaries has been rewritten. Because of this
support for the dictionary option ‘strip-accents’ has been
removed. In addition the ‘ignore-accents’ option is currently
unimplemented.

Lots of other minor changes due to massive overhaul of the source code.

Changes from 0.50.4.1 to 0.50.5 (Feb 10, 2004)

Reworked url filter which fixed several bugs and now accepts
"bla.bla/kdkdl" as a url.

Fixed bug in which the url filter was coming before all other filters
when it was supposed to come after. This solved a number of problems
where the url filter was interfering with other filters.

Small bug fix in SGML filter.

Added code page charsets, ie cp125?.dat.

Added natural (split) keyboard data file as "split.kbd"

Compile fixes for the upcoming Gcc 3.4

Removed Solaris link hack as it was causing more problems than it
fixes.

Compile fixes for Sun WorkShop 6 compiler, but there may still be some
problems, especially with linking.

Included patch to help compile with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.

Minor manual fixes.

Updated the TODO section to reflect the current progress with the next
major version of Aspell (0.51).

Updated to Autoconf 2.59, Automake 1.82, and Libtool 1.5.2.

Changes from 0.50.4 to 0.50.4.1 (Oct 11, 2003)

Fixed major bug in pipe mode which caused the last character to be
chopped off words before they were stored.

Minor formating fixes in the manual.

Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4 (Sep 26, 2003)

Minor changes in URL filter to avoid treating the double quote
character as part of the URL, and to avoid treating words ending in
more than one period as a URL.

Document fixes in Aspell API

Small compile fixes, including one for GCC 3.3

Updated Win32 section since a port now exists thanks to Thorsten
Maerz.

Complain instead of doing nothing or aborting for unimplemented
functions in Aspell utility.

Changes from .33.6 to .33.6.1 (May 29, 2001)

Removed the space after between the -L and the directory name in the
pspell-module/Makefile which caused problems on some platforms.

Added the configure option AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to avoid enabling rules
which often causes generated build files to be rebuilt with the wrong
version of Libtool by default. I don’t know why I didn’t think to do
this a long time ago.

Changes from .33.5 to .33.6 (May 18, 2001)

Fixed a minor bug where some words would have random compound tags
attached to them.

Fixed a compile problem on many platforms where fileno is defined as a
macro.

Updated the description for a few of Aspell’s options.

Removed the note of Aspell not being able to run when compiled with
the upcoming Gcc 3.0 compiler as things seam to work now.

Added a note about Aspell not being able to compile with Egcs 1.1.

Added hack to deal with Libtool’s interdependencies problem. See bug
#416981 for Pspell for more info.

Changes from .33 to .33.5 (April 5, 2001)

dump master correctly detects which dictionary and language
to use based on the LANG environment variable.

Fixed a problem on Win32 which involves path names that began with
<Drive Letter>:.

Bug fixes and enhancements so that Aspell can once again run under
MinGW. You can even use the new full screen interface if Aspell is
compiled with PDCurses.

Some major modifications to make Aspell more C++ compliant in order to
get Aspell to compile under the upcoming Gcc 3.0 compiler. This
included only using STL features found in the standard version of C++.
(Which means Aspell will no longer require using the SGI version of
the STL) This should also make compiling C++ under non-gcc compilers a
lot simpler. Please note that Aspell still has some problems with the
upcoming Gcc 3.0 compiler.

Minor changes to remove some -Wall warnings.

Added a hack so that Aspell would properly compile as a shared library
under Solaris.

Added a few important missing words to the English word list.

Changes from .32.6 to .33 (January 28, 2001)

Added a new new curses based interface to replace the dumb terminal
interface everyone has been bitching about.

Added the ability to give higher priority to words such as "the"
instead of "teh" which are likely to be due to typos.

Reorganized the manual so that it is hopefully easier to follow.

Ability to automatically select the best dictionary to use based on
the setting of the LANG environment variable.

Expanded the medium dictionary size to include more words which
included the original words found in Ispell and eliminated the large
size for now.

Added three special variant add-on dictionaries.

Switched to the multi-language branch of the CVS version of libtool.

Changes from .32.5 to .32.6 (Nov 8, 2000)

Fixed a bug where Aspell would crash when reading-in accented
characters on some platforms. This fixed bug # 112435.

Fixed some other bugs so that it will run under Win32 under CygWin.
Unfortunately it still won’t run properly under Mingw.

Fixed the mmap test in configure so that it won’t fail on some
platforms that use munmap(char *, int) instead of munmap(void *, int).

Upgraded to the latest CVS version of libtool which fixed the problem
with using GNU Make under Solaris.

Added an option to copy files instead of using symbolic links for the
special multi dictionary files.

Changes from .32.1 to .32.5 (August 18, 2000)

Changed my email from kevinatk at home com to kevina at users
sourceforge net please make a note of the new email address.

Added an option to control if the personal replacement dictionary is
saved when the save_all_wls method is called.

Brought back the ability to dump the master word list even in the case
of the special multi lists.

Added a large number of hacker related words and some other slang
terms to the medium size word list.

Added an ispell and spell compatibility script for
systems which don’t have Ispell installed. They are located in the
scripts/ directory and are not installed by default.

Manual fixes.

Added a note on not using GNU Make on Solaris.

Changes from .32 to .32.1 (August 5, 2000)

Minor compile fixes for recent gcc snapshot.

Fixed naming of pwli files.

Fixed a bug when Aspell will crash when used with certain single
letter flags. This bug was most noticeable when used with Emacs.

Word list changes, see SCOWL Readme.

Other miscellaneous changes.

Changes from .31.1 to .32 (July 23, 2000)

Added support for optionally doing without the soundslike data.

Greatly reduced the amount of memory used when creating word lists.

Added support for ignoring accents when coming up with suggestions.

Added support for local-data-dir which is searched before data-dir.

Added support for specifying which words may be used in compounds and where
they may be used.

Added support for having more than one main word list as well as a
special multi word list files which will allow multiple word
lists to be treated as one.

Aspell now uses a completely new word list.

The apostrophe (’) is no longer considered part of the word when it as
at the end of the word such as in ‘dogs'’.

Changes from .31 to .31.1 (June 18, 2000)

Fixed a bug where Aspell would not create a complete dictionary file
on some platforms when the data is 8-bit.

Added a workaround so Aspell will work with ispell.el 3.3.

Minor compile fixes so it would compile better with the very latest
gcc (CVS Version).

Removed note about compiling in Win32 as I was now able to get it to work.

Changes from .30.1 to .31 (June 11, 2000)

Added support for spell checking run together words.

Added an option to produce a list of misspelled words from standard input.

More robust error reporting when reading in language data files.

Fixed a bug that would cause Aspell to crash if the
special line was not defined in the language data file.

Changes from .30 to .30.1 (April 29, 2000)

Aspell will no longer fail if for some reason the mmap fails, instead
it will just read the file in as normal and free the memory when done.

Minor changes in the format of the main word list as a result of the
changes, the old format should still work in most cases.

Fixed a bug where Aspell was ignoring the extension of file names such
as .html or .tex when checking files.

Fixed a bug where Aspell will go into an infinite loop when creating
the main word list from a word list which has duplicates in it.

Minor changes to the manual for better clarity.

Changes from .29.1 to .30 (April 2, 2000)

Fixed many of the capitalization bugs found in previous versions of
Aspell.

Changed the format of the main word list yet again.

Fixed a bug so that aspell check will work on the PowerPC.

Added ability to change configuration options in the middle of a session.

Added words from /usr/dict/words found on most Linux systems as well
as a bunch of commonly used abbreviations to the word list.

Fixed a bug where Aspell would dump core after reporting certain errors
when compiled with gcc 2.95 or higher. This involved reworking the
Exception heritage to get around a bug in gcc 2.95.

Added a few more commands to the list of default commands the TeX
filter knows about.

Aspell will now check if a word only contains valid characters before
adding it to any dictionaries. This might mean that you have to
manually delete a few words from your personal word list.

Added option to ignore case when checking a document.

Adjusted the parameters of the normal suggest mode to so that
significantly less far fetched results are returned in cases such as
tomatoe, which went from 100 suggestions down to 32, at the expense of
getting slightly lower results (less than 1%),

Improved the edit distance algorithm for slightly faster results.

Removed the ‘$$m’ command in pipe mode, you should now use
‘$$cs mode,mode’ to set the mode and $$cr mode to
find out the current mode.

Reworked parts of Aspell to use Pspell services to avoid duplicating code.

Added a module for the newly released Pspell. It will get installed
with the rest of Aspell.

Miscellaneous other bug fixes.

Changes from .29 to .29.1 (Feb 18, 2000)

Improved the TeX filter so that it will accept ’@’ at the beginning
of a command name and ignored trailing ’*’s. It also now has better
defaults for which parameters to skip.

Reworked the main dictionary so that it can be memory mapped in. This
decreases startup time and allows multiple Aspell processes to use the
same memory for the main word list. This also also made Aspell 64 bit
clean so that it should work on an alpha now.

Fix so that Aspell could compile on platforms that gnu is not yet
available for.

Fixed issue with flock so it would compile on FreeBSD.

Minor changes in the code to make it more C++ compliant although I am
sure there will still be problems when using some other compiler other
than gcc or egcs.

Added some comments to the header files to better document a few of
the classes.

Changes from .28.3 to .29 (Feb 6, 2000)

Fixed a bug in the pipe mode with lines that start with
‘^$$’.

Added support for ignoring all words less than or equal to a specified length

New soundslike code based thanks to the contribution of Björn Jacke.
It now gets all of its data from a table making it easier for other
people to add soundslike code for their native language. He also
converted the metaphone algorithm to table form, eliminating the need
for the old metaphone code.

Major redesign of the suggestion code for better results.

Changed the format of the personal word lists. In most cases it
should be converted automatically.

Changed the format of the main word list.

Name space cleanup for more consistent naming. I now use name spaces
which means that gcc 2.8.* and egcs 1.0.* will no longer cut it.

Used file locks when reading and saving the personal dictionaries so
that it truly multiprocesses safely.

Added rudimentary filter support.

Reworked the configuration system once again. However, the changes to
the end user who does not directly use my library should be minimal.

Rewrote my code that handles parsing command line parameters so that
it no longer used popt as it was causing too many problems and didn’t
integrate well with my new configuration system.

Fixed pipe mode so that it will properly ignore lines starting with
’~’ for better Ispell compatibility.

Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)

Fixed a bug that caused Aspell to crash when spell checking words over
60 characters long.

Reworked aspell check so that

You no longer have to hit enter when making a choice.

It will now overwrite the original file instead of creating a new
file. An optional backup can be made by using the -b option.

Fixed a few bugs in data.cc.

Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)

Fixed the version number for the shared library.

Fixed a problem with undefined references when linking to the shared library.

Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)

Fixed a bunch of bugs in the language and configuration classes.

Minor changes in the code so that it could compile with the new gcc
2.95(.1).

Changed the output of dump config so that default values are
given the value <default>. This means that the output can
be used to create a configuration file.

Added notes on using Aspell with VIM.

Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)

Removed some debug output

Changed notes on compiling with gcc 2.8.* as I managed to get it to
compile on my school account

Avoided including stdexcept in ‘const_string.hh’ so that
I could get Aspell to compile on my school account with gcc 2.8.1.

Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)

Provided an iterator for the replacement classes.

Added support for dumping and creating and merging the personal and
replacement word lists.

Changed the Aspell utility command line a bit, it now used popt.

Totally reworked Aspell configuration system. Now Aspell could get
configuration from any of 5 sources: the command line, the environment
variable ASPELL_CONF, the personal configuration file, the
global configuration file, and finally the compiled-in defaults.

Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)

Fixed the version number so that Aspell reports the correct version
number.

Changed the note on gcc 2.7.2 compilers to make it clear that only the
C++ compiler cannot be gcc 2.7.2, it is OK if the C compiler is gcc
2.7.2.

Updated the TODO list and reorganized it a bit.

Fixed the directory so that all the documentation will get installed
in ${prefix}/doc/aspell instead of half of it in
${prefix}/doc/aspell and half of it in
${prefix}/doc/kspell.

Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)

Total rework of how the main word list is stored. Start up time
decreased to about 1/3 of what it was in .24 and memory usage
decreased to about 2/3. (When used with the provided word list on a
Linux system).

Also the format and default locations of the main word list data files
changed in the process and the data is now machine dependent. The
personal word list format, however, stayed the same.

Changed the scoring method to produce slightly better results with
words like the vs. teh. And other simpler misspellings where two
letters are swapped.

Fixed the very unpredictable behavior of the ‘*’, ‘&’,
‘@’ commands in the pipe mode.

Added a bunch of Aspell specific extensions to the pipe mode and
documented them.

Documented the to_soundslike and soundslike methods for
the aspell class.

Changed the scoring method to produce better results for words like
fone vs phone and other words that have a spelling that
doesn’t directly relate to how the word sounds by using the phoneme
equivalent of the word in the scoring of it.

Added the to_phoneme and have_phoneme methods to the
SC_Language class.

Added the to_phoneme method to the aspell class.

Added the framework for being able to learn from the users
misspelling. Right now it just keeps a log of replacements.

Redid ‘stl_rope-30.diff’. For some reason the version of patch
on my system refused it.

Rewrite of the “Using as a replacement for Ispell” section
and added the run-with-aspell utility as a replacement of the
old method of mapping Ispell to Aspell.

Fixed a bug that caused duplicate words to appear in the suggestion
list.

Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)

Fixed my code so that it can once again compile with g++ 2.7.2.

Rewrote the How It Works chapter.

Rewrote the Requirement section and added notes on compiling with g++
2.7.2.

Added a To Do chapter.

Added a Glossary and References chapter.

Other minor documentation improvements.

Internal code documentation improvements.

Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)

Minor documentation fixes.

Changed the scoring strategy for words with 3 or less letters. This
cut the number of words returned for these roughly in half.

Expanded the word list to also include american.0 and
american.1 from the Ispell distribution. It now includes
english.0, english.1, american.0 and
american.1 from the directory ‘languages/english’
provided with Ispell 3.1.20.

Added a link to the location of the latest Ispell.el in the
documentation.

Started a C interface and added some rough documentation for it.

Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)

Minor bug fixes. I was deleting arrays with delete rather than
delete[]. I was suprised that this had not created a problem.

Added a simple test program to test for a memory leak present on some
systems. (Only debian slink at the moment.) See the file
memleak-test.cc for more info.

Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)

Major redesign of the scoring method. It now uses absolute distances
rather than relative scores for more consistent results. See
‘suggest.cc’ for more info.

Suggest code rewritten in several places, however the core process
stayed the same.

The suggest_ultra method temporarily does nothing. It should
be working again by the next release.

Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)

Added documentation for aspell::Error

Changed the library name from libspell to libaspell. It
should never have been libspell in the first place. Sorry for
the incompatibility.

Added ‘as_error.hh’ to the list of files copied to the include
directory so that you can actually use the library outside of the
source dir.

Fixed bug that caused a segmentation fault with words where the only
suggestions was inserting a space or hyphen such as in
ledgerline.

Added the score method to aspell.

Changed the scoring method to deal with word when the user uses "f" in
place of "ph" a lot better.

Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)

Name change. Everything that was Kspell is now Aspell. Sorry,
the name Kspell was already used by KDE and I didn’t want to cause any
confusion.

Fixed a bug that causes a segmentation fault when the HOME
environment variable doesn’t exist.